Comcast XFINITY → Comcast is using Sandvine to manage P2P Connections

Looks like funchords is famous! Here's a good write-up of the issue:
»news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2007 ··· nation_2
(By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer)

I let funchords know as well I'm curious as to whether they have done recent testing or not, I am suspicious of it going on but it doesn't seem to be 100% disconnects anymore, I wonder if bittorrent has an option of "do not use encrypted transmissions" because that would affect the tracking of sandvine if so. I know you can do the opposite but I might want to track unecrypted.

Its odd even with the article that I'm still not being managed I think they will do this in Houston eventually but for now I havn't noticed any difference from TWC in torrent seeding.

I will try this. Thanks.

Finally!!!! Way to go funchords!

Well now that the cat IS out of the bag CC HAS to address the issue..how? I don't know..will be very interesting to see how they decide to handle this. Perpetuate the deception or come clean?
Bet the CC board room and PR dept are seeing some action..lol

So... In a nutshell... this is why my pictures I uploaded to my comcast online storage, won't show up when I hotlink them on a webpage ?

I use this for avatars, sig pics, etc...

If I'm being actively blocked by Comcast, this sort of makes me want to cancel my service.

Another article:

URL: »www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/

If the Internet is good for just reading e-mail and surfing, I can do that on a disl up. Why spend $56 dollars just to have blocked ports.

I say it's time to stop buying cd's people as this is about CONTROL. and it's damn stupid.

-Rob

EFF is on the case as well....this is getting good. (Insert evil grim here..)

»www.eff.org/deeplinks/20 ··· nterfere

It has nothing to do with blocking ports. It is pruning connections to throttle the traffic generated by P2P apps. It's not closing all connections.

Comcast is using what the chinese are using for internet censorship.

The picture is of me, but yup, kudos to funchords and Peter Svensson. My phone is ringing off the hook - Fox news, Wayne Freedman ABC/KGO-TV...

Unfortunately, the article makes it seem I'm not a supporter of net neutrality. I strongly support it. I just think ISPs need to be able to police spammers. Still a good article though!

Excuse me for asking a stupid question, but just what does "Net Neutrality" have to do with throttling P2P applications? The concept of "Net Neutrality" arose when SBC CEO Ed Whitacre raised the spectre of charging content providers for the traffic borne by SBC as a consequence of SBC customer requests. What Mr. Whitacre wanted amounted to "double dipping": Collecting fees from his customers for their access to the Internet and collecting fees from the information providers (Google, MSN, etc.) for providing information to those SBC customers requesting it. I was under the impression that "Net Neutrality" was opposed to this "double dipping" concept.

I believe net neutrality means all net traffic treated the same regardless nature, origin or destination...hope I'm close..lol

It doesn't, and that's an unfortunate and terrible misunderstanding that is popular these days. Net neutrality refers to not prioritizing traffic from one location to another, based on the endpoints (and who pays the most cash to backbones for their site). It does NOT refer to protocol-based traffic shaping, independent of origin/destination, which network operators should be free to continue to do and manage their networks as they see fit.

No, I don't consider Sandvine's man-in-the-middle attacks to be legitimate traffic shaping, but there are a lot less intrusive methods out there.

Okay, but it seems I cannot get a connection with any peers either on Utorrent. Only thing I use Utorrent for (used to use Azureus till it got all crappy) is to download Linux Distros, but now can't even download those.

If you're in the bay area, tune into channel 2 and/or channel 7.
Channel 7 at 6PM PDT.

I'll post links to the online versions if I can.

good too see this stuff is finally starting to hit the mainstream media. Now hopefully this will put pressure on Comcast to do something about it.

Wow, two famous BBR members! Good luck on your TV interviews. I hope you find links to share.

Oh, btw, here's a google-hosted version of the AP article with even more pics of you!!
»ap.google.com/article/AL ··· 8SCGPQO0

And another good article about the issue from your neighbor (also in SF) Farhad Manjoo, but the pic he used isn't as attractive as yours:
»machinist.salon.com/blog ··· comcast/

Watch out for the Papparazzi, or even worse, possible reprisals ...

I don't understand why some people keep saying that this has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. To be sure, this is unrelated to the original issue of charging content providers a premium to ensure unfettered access to their content. Instead it's just another example demonstrating that we need to expand our concept of Net Neutrality.

There are those that seem to have an interest in erecting walls between us, claiming that they are protecting the rights of the majority from abuse by a dangerous minority. But it's not the majority that decides what's supposedly best for everyone--therein lies the rub. An even smaller minority of stuffed suits looking after their portfolios are the ones creating an artificial "us-versus-them" mentality.

That might be fine and well for those that play by their rules, until they start changing to rules to suit the thickness of their wallets.

The media coverage was < sarcasm> impeccable as usual < /sarcasm> »www.ktvu.com/video/14382 ··· dex.html

»abclocal.go.com/kgo/stor ··· =5716714

The purpose of non-net-neutrality is to fix the problem of commodity Internet being a business market that is too competitive for the big players to make money hand over giant excavator shovelful.

PS The movie I was trying to BitTorrent was "INFEST WISELY".

My address is quite hard to find. But reporter Pattie Lee got a hold of my cellphone #, I'm not sure how. Being a spamfigher (and some of the mobsters involved are quite scary) I try to be hard to find.

Maybe you should have worn one of those George Bush masks when those vids were shot ?

That video shows two people with your name. Which are you? heh

Seth Shoen ??

A class action suite...actually feasible if you can get the EFF to back you 100% imo. Nice work fellas!!

I suppose you would advocate free food and housing for all? "Food and housing neutrality" should be more important than expanded "net neutrality". I can live without fansub anime, but I need to eat, and a place to set up my computer to watch all of that anime.

Sorry for the hyperbole; but your next paragraph is also full of it.Somebody has to pay for the bandwidth. WRT making Google pay for data I request; AT&T should set a price commensurate with the data I am pulling through their pipes. At the same time, they have the obligation to ensure that my data access does not disrupt my neighbors.They are not being as arbitrary as you think. So far, of all the Comcast users I personally know, none are adversely affected by Sandvine. Only a vociferous few of all the posters in this forum are speaking up.

I agree that there ought to be a better way for Comcast to handle this issue. But it isn't affecting access to most data. Only that moved by P2P applications. And it isn't wholly blocked. BT appears to work until the file is completely downloaded. It is the seeding which is problematic.

I thought that a civil suit needed to show some actual tort (damage) caused by the defendant against the plaintiff?

damage is an element of a properly pleaded tort, but a tort is really about conduct, the tortuous conduct of the defendant.

Nice picture of technology »www.sandvine.com/product ··· ment.asp